Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] Symlink clarification
Date: Tuesday, 15 Sep 2020, 17:08:36

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > When I run the staff solution in a directory containing a symbolic link
    > that points to itself, I get the error message "stat(NAME_OF_LINK)
    > failed". However, doing the same thing with the find command gives an
    > ELOOP error: "too many levels symbolic links.
    >
    > Which error message is actually representing what is going on?

Neither message is incorrect:  stat(NAME_OF_LINK) does
fail and the value of ERRNO is ELOOP.

--Stan-